Intimate partner violence is a widespread phenomenon and the capacity for violence is not gender-specific. Personal social values, rooted attitudes about gender roles, and the personal characteristics of members of society are related to the perception of all forms of violence. The aim of this quantitative study was to assess students’perception of violent behaviour in partner relationships depending on the individual characteristics of perpetrators and victims of violence. The study was conducted with students (N = 793) of specific professions that are involved in working with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence:social work, medicine, psychology, law, police and social pedagogues. The method of vignettes sought to investigate the differences in attributing responsibility for violence depending on the gender of the perpetrator and of the participant. The results confirmed the hypotheses that participants will attribute significantly more responsibility for the violence and perceive the situation as more serious when the perpetrator was male then in situations where the perpetrator was a woman. It was also confirmed that female respondents generally attributed more responsibility forall forms of violence, as well as perceived situations as being more serious, then did male respondents, regardless of the victim’s gender.