This paper presents the prediction of springback in sheet metal forming in terms of the description of the Bauschinger effect. It addresses three different types of constitutive models: an iso-tropic hardening model (IH model), a linearly kinematic hardening model (LK model), and a model of combined linearly-nonlinearly kinematic and isotropic hardening (L-NK+IH model). The springback predicted by the L-NK+IH model is found to be more pronounced than that by the III and the LK model. It is caused by the stress-strain response characterized by the gradual transition from fully elastic to plastic behavior during stress-reversal, which is essential to the L-NK+IH model.