Introduction. Health behaviours either promote or threaten health. These types of behaviours have been diagnosed in numerous studies; however, there is still a lack of a suitable ‘scale’ for assessing them, hence also a requirement for the evaluation of health behaviours in young people. The assessment which I made of such health behaviours in order to classify young people into pro- or anti-health groups was possible due to the development and implementation of my own “Scale for assessing young people’s health behaviours”.

Aim. Application of this scale in the assessment of young people’s health behaviours.

Materials and methods. My own “Scale for assessing young people’s health behaviours”, presented in the research methodology of this work.

Results and conclusions. Potential applications for the “Scale for assessing young people’s health behaviours” in:

• • the individual assessment of health behaviours in every schoolchild
• • the assessment of group health behaviours such as the year II pupils, or for the pupils at a given school, where the number of points from each pupil are added together and then divided by the total number of pupils participating in the study
• • for assessing young people’s health behaviours, which, along with comparisons with other studies by other authors, is presently impossible
• • when assessing the effectiveness of health education and health programmes.

Słowa kluczowe: zachowania zdrowotne, skala do oceny zachowań zdrowotnych, styl życia, health behaviours, scale for assessing health behaviours, lifestyle