I'd be interested in knowing if there's a link between how emotional an individual is and how much empathy they feel. I wouldn't want to extrapolate too much f

I'd be interested in knowing if there's a link between how emotional an individual is and how much empathy they feel. I wouldn't want to extrapolate too much from this, but I think this could explain why kids who are beaten or were sexual abused are more likely to go on and do it themselves? My understanding is that to cope with extreme emotional stress people often learn to blunt their emotions, so if these findings are correct, then perhaps this results in a lack of empathy for their actions later in life. And perhaps same could be true in reverse too. I think most people who know me would say I'm an overly an emotional person and I often struggle with overwhelming empathy to the point I think you could argue my sense of empathy is misaligned.