The thesis is aimed at deepening the knowledge about violence in youth relationships, and primarily explore the attitudes that young people have towards violence in intimate partner relationships. Along with the attitudes towards relationship violence, this study was focused on aspects of male-female relations, such as attitudes towards sex-roles and of relationship between participants’ parents. The main purpose of this research is to determine whether there is a connection between the attitudes of young people towards relationship violence and their perception of male-female relations. Targeted research population are students from 20 faculties of the University of Zagreb, aged 18 to 30. The sample consisted of 154 students. Data collection method that was used was a web survey made up of four scales: social-demographic data, Attitudes towards Dating Violence, Sex-Roles Egalitare Scale and scale of perception of parents’ relationship. The results showed that there is a statistically significant negative correlation between attitudes about violence in intimate relationships and perception of gender roles equality, thus confirming the first hypothesis. The relation between the attitudes of young people towards violence and their perception of the quality of relations between their parents was not statistically significant.