Burnout in teacher's profession: Age, years of practice and some disorders

In our research we studied burnout and select health problems in a sample o f 445 basic (46 %), special (19 %) and high school (35 %) teachers. All sch ools were located in Slovakia. Our results did not confirm the expected hig h burnout in this professional group, however, we found significantly highe r score in classic phobias in the group of older teachers and significantly higher score in exhaustion (in the sense of a lower score in the so-called personal accomplishment). The most significant differences are in the high er score in social anxiety, which is present among teachers who are just be ginning to teach and those with years of teaching practice. The emotional e xhaustion indicator (EE) correlates positively with classic phobias, social anxiety, stage fright, depersonalization, neuroticism and also with greate r occurrence of health problems in the gastrointestinal and cardiovascular areas.