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Background and Aim: The satisfaction of family members, specifically the spouses, is one of the main factors effecting family effective function. According to this fact that the family is the basic and an important institution of people’s life, it is essential to protect its basis in couples’ mental and behavioral health. Therefore, social skills acquisition is an effective path to prevent marital problems. The present article was done with the aim to explain sociologically the reduction of spouses’ social damages in Yasuj city based on their acquisition of social skills during 2021. Methods: The method of research was survey correlation and the statistical society were all married spouses during 2011 to 2016 who were 24792 in the year 2021; among them 599 couples were chosen and studied in random quota method through Sample Power software. The theoretical framework was codified through the ecological, social disorganization, felonious subculture, labeling, Agnew’s Sociological- psychological pressure, and social control theories for social damages, and also the theories of Parsons, William Good, social learning and relational dialectics for social skills. The measurement instruments was researcher-made questionnaire; to evaluate its validity, the content validity was applied and the reliability of questionnaire was gained through Cronbach's alpha which was over 0.7 and approved for all variables. Results: The obtained results of Pearson Correlation test demonstrated an inverse relationship among social skills and its components with social damages. Also, the results if multiple regression test and path analysis revealed that; the sympathy and cooperation skill with the effect of (-0.551), the coping skills with the effect of (-0.415), the social values observance skill with the effect of (-0.399), the self-governance skill with the effect of (-0.222) and the relations with friends skill with the effect of (-0.048) may reduce the couples’ social damages in Yasuj city; among them sympathy and cooperation and coping strategy and also coping strategy had the main effects. However, the effect of all factors in total explain the 64% of social damages reduction of the couples. Conclusion: Hence, it can be effective to receive social skills in the form of sympathy and cooperation, the ability of communicating with friends and acquaintances alongside the social values’ observance skill in the society besides the coping and self-governance skills, to diminish couples’ social damages in family.