THE REALITY GAP
FACING VIOLENCE WITHOUT ILLUSION
This site is an interactive companion to The Reality Gap, a practical guide to realistic self-protection. It is designed to help you examine the space between how you expect to respond to violence and what your training is likely to support under real-world pressure.
Take the challenge, assess YOUR reality gap now!
Measure What Matters
This site contains 3 short questionnaires – that typically take 5 minutes each to complete – that map your readiness across the full arc of a violent encounter.
- The Denial of Violent Confrontation Scale
- The Violent Confrontation Self-Efficacy Scale (VC-SES)
- The Training Fidelity Scale (TFS)
Scales two and three combine to generate a single, actionable metric, your Reality Gap Index. The bigger the number, the greater the gap in your personal safety.
Please note – if you’re not currently engaged in any form of training we can’t calculate the disparity between it and how it interacts your belief in how you’d handle a violent confrontation.
Please note, by completing these questionnaires and submitting them to receive a Reality
Gap Index score, you are consenting to your anonymised data being stored securely, in
order to further analyse and refine the measures. No identifying information, such as your IP address etc, will be gathered.
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