The Role of Communicative Skills in Intergenerational Social Mobility: A Case Study: Tehran's Over-30-Year-Old Citizens

One of the indicators of judging the development of a society is the social mobility especially, its ascending vertical type and the factors affecting it. This study aims at  investigating the role of speech skills, self-disclosure, writing skills, and the use of communication technologies in intergenerational social mobility. It is a quantitative research in which the survey method and the researcher-made questionnaire have been used. The statistical population included 5,240,090 people selected from Tehran's over-30-year-old citizens . The sample was 384 persons selected through Cochran's formula and Sampling was done in the form of multi-stage clusters. The results revealed that communication skills and population variables had affected the citizens’ intergenerational social mobility with a coefficient of 0.19. Writing skill with β: 0.23 and self-disclosure with β: 0.24 also had affected intergenerational social mobility. There was no significant relationship between speech skills and using communication technologies and intergenerational social mobility. Besides, gender variable with β: -0.34 and marital status variable with β: 0.11 had affected social mobility. Based on the t-test and considering gender variable, vertical intergenerational social mobility was more in men and considering marital status, it was more in singles. Tehran citizens’ communication skills were more than average and their intergenerational social mobility was ascending for men and descending for women.