Violence, and especially family violence, has been one of the most relevant topics that has been talked about in the Croatian media, as well as in politics in the last few years. It is important to have insight on national and international factors that increase the risk of family violence, so that preventive strategies could be developed. However, there is little to no research in Croatia that focuses on examining the factors that may affect the way attitudes and beliefs about violence are formed. The main aim of this graduation paper was to examine what kind of effects certain sociocultural predictors such as gender, field of study, financial situation while growing up, current monthly income, personal experience with family violence, being acquaintance with someone who was or still is a victim of family violence, political affiliation and level of religiosity have on forming certain attitudes and beliefs about family violence. Results based on research carried out on a sample of 574 students from the University of Zagreb indicated that there is a statistically significant difference in attitudes and beliefs about family violence in general based on students’ gender, field of study, personal experience with family violence, being acquaintance with someone who was or still is a victim of family violence, political affiliation, and level of religiosity. In the analysis of differences in attitudes and beliefs about violence between intimate partners and violence against children, significant predictors were gender, level of religiosity and acquaintance with someone who was or still is a victim of family violence, while in terms of differences in attitudes and beliefs about violence against elderly family members, the only significant predictor was gender. Although it is not possible to draw general conclusions based on the results, it indicates the persistence of trends in the studied population of students where it has been shown that certain sociocultural factors do play a role in the way we shape our attitudes and beliefs about family violence.