This study examined the prevalence of behavior problems in three different groups of non-clinic referred adolescents: Jamaican natives, U.S. natives, and Jamaican immigrants in the U.S. Questions of interest included: 1) Do Jamaican immigrant children have higher problem severity than their U.S. and Jamaican counterparts, and 2) Do Jamaican immigrant children exhibit different problem types from the other two groups? Dependent variables included individual problem items, eight syndrome scores, internalizing and externalizing groupings of syndrome scores, and the total problem score. These were analyzed separately in a 3 (ethnic status) X 2 (gender) X 3 (age level) Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVAs). Socioeconomic status (SES) was used as a covariate. The findings indicated very modest differences among the problems reported by parents in the three ethnic groups.