Burnout and Psychological Health in High School Teachers

he relationships between burnout variables and psychological health variables in high school teachers were examined in this study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI; Maslach & Jackson, 1981) and the Symptom Check List (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1975) were administered to 137 female and 163 male high school teachers in Tehran selected by the stratified random sampling method. Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient was used for data analyses. Results indicated significant positive correlations between job burnout variables, including emotional exhaustion and deperso- nalization, and psychological health variables, including obsessive-compulsiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, depres- sion, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. There was a significant negative cor- relation between loss of personal accomplishment (as a burnout variable) and all the psychological health vari- ables among male teachers. Implications of the findings are discussed and suggestion for future research is given.