Background: Bipolar affective disorder is chronic psychiatric illness that requires long term care. This study tends to measure psychological wellbeing among caregivers and its comparison across gender. Aims: The study aims to asses and compare the level of psychological wellbeing among the caregivers of male and female bipolar affective disorder patients.

Methods: This is a cross- sectional study that included participants by purposive sampling method. Self-designed Performa was used to collect the sociodemographic details of the caregivers. About 60 caregivers of patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, aged 20 years or more, of either gender, living with the patient for at least two years were assessed by the Psychological wellbeing scale (Ryff, 1989). Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and t-test are used to analyze the data.

Results: It was found that the Ryff psychological wellbeing scale domain scores of Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Personal Growth, Positive Relation with others, Purpose in Life, SelfAcceptance were similar and had no significant difference in all the domains. The study did not find any statistically significant difference in the psychological wellbeing of the caregivers in relation to the patient’s gender.

Conclusions: Psychological wellbeing is seen to be similar in caregivers of both male and female Bipolar Affective Disorder.