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The present thesis examines the theme of the burnout of teachers in primary education. Occupational burnout syndrome is a psychosomatic condition in which large numbers of people enter during the exercise of their profession. The purpose of the specific research is to examine occupational burnout, job satisfaction, role ambiguity, role conflict and safety at work at the case of primary education.For this purpose, a quantitative research takes place, using as research tool the questionnaire in a sample of 108 primary school teachers in Trikala Prefecture of Greece. As the data analysis showed, burnout is positively correlated with job satisfaction, the ambiguity of roles correlates negatively with burnout and the conflict of roles is positively correlated with burnout, findings that are in agreement with the literature.However, the survey reveals that men and women differ in burnout, something that contradicts the theoretical analysis that suggests that women show greater burnout than men.Also, this research showed that men and women do not differ in job satisfaction, a finding which agrees with the bibliographic analysis of this thesis. Finally it was found out that men and women differ in the feeling of safety at work, where male teachers feel more secure in their jobs than women do