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Associations between Croatian Adolescents’ Use of Sexually Explicit Material and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Latent Growth Curve Modeling Approach

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Pages 77-91 | Received 31 Aug 2018, Accepted 06 Jan 2019, Published online: 19 Feb 2019

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