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Obesity and underweight are related to health as well as physical attractiveness. Children become aware of the role of healthy nutrition and its relationship to one’s body shape in early childhood. In order to perform a direct study in children aged 5 to 9, the Beauty & Health (B&H) and Dietary Knowledge & Habits (DKH) scales were developed.  \nparticipants and procedure  \nThe validation procedure involved 721 children assigned to two groups divided with regard to age and education: years 0 to 1 (ages 5-7) and years 2 to 3 (ages 8-9) .  \nresults  \nThe B&H scale allows one to determine how children attribute social success and health-related behaviors to women and men with different body shape. The B&H scale is composed of 18 questions. Some of them are supported with illustrations presenting various healthy behaviors. The child is asked to match each activity to oneof three pictures presenting adults with different body shapes (slim, normal, and obese) . The survey includes questions regarding social functioning of persons with  \nthe different body types. The questionnaire was prepared in two variants, for girls and boys, referring to women and men, respectively.  \nThe DKH scale comprises 50 illustrations of healthy and unhealthy food products. DKH consists of two subscales. The first assesses the child’s nutritional knowledge; the researcher shows various pictures of food while the child decides to which group (healthy, unhealthy) these meals belong. The second subscale allows the assessment of the child’s eating habits. The child is shown the same pictures and asked how often he/she eats these meals (very often, only sometimes, very rarely or never). Using the same pictures twice allows an estimate to be made of the cohesion of the child’s nutritional knowledge and their eating habits.  \nconclusions  \nThe Beauty & Health and Dietary Knowledge & Habits scales show good psychometric values and can be successfully used to study children aged 5-9 for both scientific purposes and to help assess the effectiveness of school health programs.  \nkey words  \nscale validation; gender stereotypes and health; nutritional knowledge; body image; elementary schoolers  \norganization – 1: Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 2: Department of Health Psychology, Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, Gdansk, Poland  \nauthors’ contributions – A: Study design · B: Data collection · C: Statistical analysis · D: Data interpretation ·  \nE: Manuscript preparation · F: Literature search · G: Funds collection  \ncorresponding author – Prof. Mariusz Lipowski, Department of Health Psychology, Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, 1 Kazimierza Górskiego Str., 80-336 Gdansk, Poland, [e-mail: mariusz.lipowski@awfis.gda.pl](e-mail: mariusz.lipowski@awfis.gda.pl)  \n[to cite this article](to cite this article) – Lipowska, M., & Lipowski, M. (2018). Children’s awareness of healthy behaviors – validity of Beauty & Health and Dietary Knowledge & Habits scales. Health Psychology Report, 6(4), 361–374. [https://doi](https://doi). org/10.5114/hpr.2018.74688  \nreceived 18.01.2018 · reviewed 19.02.2018 · accepted 20.02.2018 · published 28.12.2018  \nMałgorzata Lipowska, Mariusz Lipowski  \nBackground  \n“A healthy mind in a healthy body” is a well-known proverb that emphasizes the relationship between physical and mental health. Concern for health is inseparable from concern for the body and its functioning, fitness, and also its appearance (Cash & Smolak, 2011) . 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