We investigate the commutativity in a (semi-)prime ring R which admits skew derivations δ1, δ2 satisfying [δ1(x), δ2(y)] = [x, y] for all x, y in a nonzero right ideal of R. This result is a natural generalization of Bell and Daif’s theorem on strong commutativity preserving derivations and a recent result by Ali and Huang.