In order to study the temperature dependence of the Bauschinger effect and to obtain information about the origin of the effect, compressive flow behavior of polycrystalline aluminium preeffect, which are respectively in terms of stress, strain and energy, were measured at various amounts of reversed strains. These parameters, which are considered to be closely related to dislocation structures due to pre-straining and reversed straining, showed different temperature dependences. This fact indicates that the greatest care must be taken in comparing the results by different authors. From the parameters obtained at small reversed strains it is concluded that the degree of the effect decreases with increasing temperature.Such temperature dependence of the effect is well explained from the change in dislocation structures with deformation temperature.The parameters determined at relatively large reversed strains seem to be greatly influenced by the change in dislocation structures during the reversed straining.