Emotional stress has been reported to be related to higher blood pressure and unfavorable cardiovascular profile. The aim of this study was to estimate the exposure and the resistance to emotional stress in hypertensive patients. The study population comprised: 91 subjects with diagnosed primary hypertension (study group: 46 women and 45 men, mean age 50.6 ± 8.5 ys) and 71 healthy volunteers (control group: 41 women and 30 men, mean age 45.3 ± 7.3 ys). The level of exposure and the resistant to emotional stress in subjects was assessed on the basis of a questionnaire that included items related to emotional stress in all life periods (from childhood throughout adolescence to adulthood, both in the private life and in social situations) as well as the resistance to stress in their own sense as good, moderate or weak. All the participants had also measured blood pressure. Significantly higher percentage of hypertensive subjects declared weak resistance to stress than healthy people. The least percentage of the study group declared low exposure to stress, the greatest percentage of subjects was exposed to frequent and relatively high stress in all periods of life, while an inverse proportion was found in the control group. Analysis of blood pressure did not show significant dependence on the stress level in both studied groups. It is justified to conclude that hypertensive patients were more exposed and less resistant to emotional stress than healthy people.