Mental health and job burn - out as the Basic Components of Teaching

The main objective of the present research is to determine the relation between mental health and job burn- out of intermediate school teachers of Hamedan province.The methodology is of descriptive – correlation type.In this research 400 teachers of intermediate schools of statistical population 1415, are selected in stratified – random sampling. For gathering data, the researcher used the revised 90- item list of scl. 90- R mental symptom, and 22- item question aire Maslach burn – out inventory. The findings regarding teacher's mental health indicate that 66% of teachers enjoy a proper mental health, and 31.5% are remarkable and 2.5% have serious problems.Concering the rate of job burn – out 31.2% suffered from lack of personal accomplishment, 20.4% from depersonalisation, and 9.9% from emotional exhaustion at a moderate and high level. Also, the findings show that, those teachers who suffered from job burnout similarly had a low mental health level.Regarding the results, one can say that just depression variables and psychosis manners have independent correlation with job burn- out variable. one the other hand,the depression variable with B coefficient have been the best predictor of job burn- out.